Not long ago, the inspirational comedy movie " Hot Hot " directed and starred by Jia Ling was the first to be released in theaters. Its cumulative total box office in the mainland has thus stopped at 3.46 billion yuan, continuing to dominate the market with a slight advantage. It is the box office champion during this year’s Spring Festival and is temporarily ranked as the annual box office champion in the Chinese mainland market. Globally, this film has only been surpassed by the Hollywood blockbuster " Dune 2" and is temporarily ranked as the runner-up in the global annual box office.
Judging from the box office performance, "Hot" is definitely a very successful movie. After all, the 3.46 billion yuan result has surpassed Chen Sicheng's " Chinatown Detective 2" in the box office list of Chinese film history, ranking fourteenth.
But even though it has outstanding box office results and has successfully entered the top 15 in the box office list of Chinese film history, Jia Ling's "Hot and Spicy" is still full of controversies in China, and it is precisely because of these controversies that this has happened The final total box office of the film only stayed at 3.46 billion yuan (the highest predicted box office before the film was released was 45 yuan), which was a direct decrease of 1 billion yuan compared with the original highest predicted box office result.
The movie "Hot and Spicy" is full of controversy among viewers. One of the reasons is that the plot of the film is adapted from Japan's " Hundred Yuan Love ". Another reason is that there is news that this movie The total cost of the movie reached 350 million yuan, which is more than the domestic science fiction blockbuster "The Wandering Earth". Then there are some viewers who question Jia Ling's ability as a director and think she is just putting on a show.
Even though the controversy is huge, even though the total box office has shrunk by 1 billion yuan due to the controversy, we have to admit that through the movie "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling herself has indeed become stronger.
Through "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling herself successfully lost 100 pounds in more than a year, and also developed a body of tendons that really looks like a boxer.
The movie "Hot and Spicy" really made Jia Ling stronger, and in order to let the audience see her process of successfully losing weight and becoming stronger, and seeing some of the behind-the-scenes stories of the movie "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling Not long ago, the behind-the-scenes documentary "I Only Live Once" was released, which was highly praised by many viewers.
The documentary "I Only Live Once" has four episodes in total, namely " adventure ", " transformation ", "sprint" and "boxer". From the titles of these episodes, we can know that this is about the adventure and ups and downs of Jia Ling's journey in order to shape the final role of a boxer.
The documentary began to be broadcast on domestic online video platforms on April 16 this year, and two episodes have been broadcast so far.
After watching the plot of these two episodes, many viewers gave it very high praise. They said, "Jia Ling is really great. You have overcome it in such difficult days." Others said, "It's awesome to have goals, plans, and solid implementation step by step."
saw the behind-the-scenes of the filming of the movie "Hot and Spicy" and saw the process of Jia Ling becoming stronger, only then did she realize the difficulty behind it. From now on, Jia Ling may become stronger and stronger, truly embarking on the path of a great director, and maybe, like Stephen Chow, she will completely move behind the scenes and become a professional director.